At A Hen's Pace

While we've been recovering from The Sound of Music , more dramas have loomed on the horizon! As I mentioned before, auditions for Cha...

So we've had my niece here, from Kansas, for 10 days.  She's almost 13 and so mature and smart for her age!  We are really enjoying ...

Besides the snow and the Super Bowl, what all is going on in our lives? Let's start with the oldest child and work our way down. Ban...

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.  ~John Lennon I have been busy making plans for our last-hurrah, final family-v...

We held our second-ever all-church Talent Show last night!  It was a blast.  We had around 40 different people perform in a solid 90 minutes...

I feel like a hamster on an exercise wheel, running and running and never getting anywhere!   My to-do list seems to grow longer and longer ...

After Holy Week, it was fortunate that we had Spring Break!  I needed a week to recover and get caught up on life. Only Bantam14 went anyw...

What's new? Bantam19 just brought home his cap, gown, tassel and a box of graduation announcements, prompting me to call up the place th...

I keep feeling guilty that I'm not blogging more. Okay, guilty is the wrong word--I'm feeling SAD because I MISS blogging. So many...

It's been busy at Chez Henhouse. We are having a house blessing tonight! Never mind that it will be two years in May that we have liv...

Writing about B19's birthday made me realize how long it's been since I've updated on the teens in our home! With his graduation...

It's that time of year--time for recitals, concerts and shows! Our string began last week with the Christmas Concert at Blondechick and...

Or do you call it "the viewing"? That's what they call it where I'm from in Ohio. Many people came to pay their respects t...

My grandmother is dying. We visited her while we were back home in Ohio . She’s in an assisted living facility, a pretty and cheerful...

Blondechick16 made it home in one piece from camp, and her initial summary of how her week went was, "I survived." It sounds like...

Blondechick16-- Blondechick's charter school requires all the sophomores to give a presentation called "Sophomore Passage" to ...

Our little Chicklet6 has been having some trouble with her leg. Last week she had a swollen lymph gland in the groin area, and even though ...

Remember the unfindable vaccination records ? They showed up, in the filing cabinet I had thought they were in, tucked way down in between ...

Thursday was our low-key, hang-around-the-campsite day, waiting on our friends to arrive. When they did arrive, around mid-afternoon, we hel...

(Or, Back in the Camper Again!) With our house on the market last summer and all the time we were spending on it, it had been nearly two yea...